| Book Name: | The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America |
| Category: | Politics Books |
| Language: | English |
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| Free Download: | Available |
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From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new history of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and the United States.
With the end of the Cold War, liberal democracy seemed to have won for good. Observers said that history was over because they were sure that the future would be peaceful and globalized. This trust was a mistake. Authoritarianism came back to Russia when Putin used fascist ideas to justify ruling by the rich. In the 2010s, it spread from the east to the west, helped by the Russian war in Ukraine and the cyberwar in Europe and the US.
Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its desire to break up Western institutions, states, and values found support in the West itself. Russia wanted populism to grow, the British to vote against the EU, and Donald Trump to be elected, but the fact that they all happened shows how weak Western societies are.
Snyder goes beyond the headlines to show what the real threat to democracy and the rule of law is. He does this by doing a lot of research and reporting from his own experiences. To understand the challenge, you must see, and maybe even renew, the fundamental political virtues that the past has taught us and that the future will demand. By showing us the stark choices we face—between equality and oligarchy, individuality and totality, truth, and falsehood—Snyder helps us understand the basis of our way of life and gives us a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.
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Author(s): Timothy Snyder
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books, Year: 2018
ISBN: 0525574468, 9780525574460
